Power & Place — Grade 12

Grade 12 closes the K–12 arc: students who can name the systems of a place now have to imagine what they will leave behind in it. Through narratives spanning African-American memory, the African diaspora, the global refugee experience, and contemporary urban indigeneity, students investigate inheritance — what we keep, what we return, what we owe the next reader. This is the unit where cultural literacy becomes civic authorship: each student leaves with a public-facing thesis about the place they come from and the place they are making.